Deadpan Darling is the collaboration between Ceschi and Blue Sky Black Death. The twist here is that this isn’t a new collaboration, rather one that took place in 2005. All involved had thought that the album was lost to the ether after a fried hard drive erased everything that they had recorded, but recently Televangel discovered that he did in fact have enough salvageable material that they could touch things up and finally put the album.

MC K-Swift is a New York artist and educator that has been laying shit down since 1994. He started off this year with a full-length album called Pottery Class Volume 1: The Clay. Now he’s back with a follow up EP, Pottery Class Volume 2: Ceramics. When you’re a skilled veteran like K-Swift, you don’t always need a lot of space to say everything. With Ceramics, we only get six songs, and only one of those approaches four minutes, so it might appear on paper that you’re getting something slap-dash and unfinished.

LATASHA, fka Latasha Alcindor, made a splash in 2016-2017, when she made an appearance on Sammus’ Pieces in Space, and then released her own solo album, Teen Nite at Empire. Since that time, she has relocated from New York to L.A., but she had been relatively quiet, musically speaking. She emerged last year to drop a collection of older material called PAST LIFE. Now she’s back with a new hybrid project, Meds by Tasha Vol.

Serengeti had a busy 2020, with multiple releases including two stellar albums, AJAI and With Greg From Deerhoof. As we work our way through 2021, Serengeti has been going back into the vault, releasing what a day, some of his very first recordings, in February. Now he’s back with another lost session, this time from around 2010, Jeremy C. The Jeremy C in question is Jeremy Cox, musician/producer from Chicago who has released a lot of solo material and worked on projects with Arthur Friedhoff and Craig Bravo Miller.

Donwill is of course one half of the duo Tanya Morgan, alongside Von Pea. It was two years ago when he gave us his last solo album, One Word No Space. At the beginning of the pandemic last year, Donwill gave us an EP called SAFE. Now, a year later, he’s giving us something of a companion piece with a new EP called SPACE. SAFE saw Donwill taking more and more of the helm of production duties, getting a couple of assists along the way, but overall the project was balanced by Donwill and guests on the mic.

Team Dynamite is a group from New Zealand consisting of Tony Teez, Lucky Lance, and Haz Beats. They’ve been going strong for over a decade now, but it’s been six years since their last proper release, an EP by the name of Never Again. Now they are finally back and better than ever with a new album to show for it, Respect the Process. When you take a long time in between projects, there comes a certain expectation of the quality of the product.

Flobama is a producer from Austin that came up as part of the Hermit Kingdom crew. These days he’s been focusing on his solo career, and he was especially busy in 2020, with an EP, album, and two beat tapes to show for it. He’s back now with a new beat tape, “have a biscuit.” In the words of flobama, ““have a biscuit” is a lil’ collection of boombap tracks with crispy drum crackers & creamy sample filling, finished off with a dunk in the legendary Roland SP404 OG Vinyl Sim Compression!

Ben Buck is a triple-threat artist from Austin (emcee, producer, and beatboxer) who has been really busy over the past five-plus years. Just in 2020, we got two albums, Kilroy and Speaker Bump Deluxe, along with some singles and remixes. He’s not slowing down in 2021, now dropping a new beat tape, WHATABANGER. It’s funny how different producers living in the same city and engaging with some of the same local culture can talk to each other through their music.

Genesis Owusu is an artist that was born in Ghana and immigrated to Canberra as a child. He dropped his debut EP, Cardrive, in 2017. Since that time, he’s dropped a number of singles and done some guest appearances, but we’ve still been waiting for that proper follow up release. Well, the wait is finally over as Owusu drops his debut LP, Smiling With No Teeth. If you’re going to take your time with a project, you want to make sure you do it right and make it count, and holy cow did Genesis Owusu make it count with Smiling With No Teeth.

Teeth Agency is a new group formed by Jesse Hackett, a London-based musician/producer who works as part of Gorillaz touring band, and Mariano Chavez, a multi-media artist from Chicago. The two initially met when Hackett bought a vintage ‘dental phantom’ from Mariano’s gallery in Chicago, and the two kept in touch and kept bouncing ideas off of each other for an unconventional project that would include music and visuals. After a lot of time building together, they are finally ready to release their debut full-length album, You Don’t Have To Live in Pain.